Hello!

Our weekly Tor Browser meeting ended a couple of hours ago and, as usual, here comes the link to our IRC log:

http://meetbot.debian.net/tor-meeting2/2019/tor-meeting2.2019-03-18-18.31.lo...

and our meeting notes from the pad are:

Tor Browser Meeting Notes Week of March 18, 2019

Discussion: sysrqb: Move meeting 1 hour earlier? (GeKo: We'll start with that on 4/1 and I'll announce the change to tbb-dev) feedback process

GeKo: Last Week: - release prep - many reviews for #28329 and #27609; reviewing #29794, #25658, #28628, #27478, #29440, #29758, #26323, #25876 - updated patch for #28802 - wrote small patch for better NoScript integration (#29021) - worked on NextCloud test This Week: - Firefox 68 will be developed in mozilla-central (GeKo: pospeselr will look at https://torpat.ch/ and figure our what tickets at bugzilla need to get filed and which patches we should try to upstream) - more reviews - work on mobile bugs - release signing

pospeselr: Last Week: Finished the #25658 patches (Security Level button!) This Week: Update the torbutton part (of #25658) to 'intelligently' add the new Security Level button to the toolbar, rather then resetting everything to our defaults Catch up on all the not-programming work I'm supposed to be doing Get back into the windows swing of things

investigate #27503 (broken screen readers on Windows)

Write up a quick patch for #28996 (jump list disk leakage fix on Windows)

mcs and brade: Last week: - Finished #28628 (Introduce New Security Settings to users). - Finished #29440 (Update about:tor when Tor Browser is updated). - Reviewed patches for #25658 (security slider replacement). - Helped with other code reviews. - Participated in Tor Browser developer interview. This week/soon: - Note: We will be out of the office (and mostly afk) this Thursday and Friday (March 21 and 22). - Look at #29790 (Add build option to store profile in HOME directory). - Follow up on Mozilla bug 1434666 (updater failing on Linux (cannot find libraries). - Investigate #29630 (TorBrowser creates empty directory in "/tmp”). - Investigate #27484 comment:13 (DDG onboarding doorhanger disappears after tab switch). - For #28044, revise proposal 102 to take into account intrigeri’s comments as well as some things we learned during implementation. - Review the Firefox updater security audit report.

boklm: Last week: - helped build new releases - made some patches for: - #29758: Build firefox debug infos for linux-i686 - #25623: Disable network during build - revised patch for 26323: Build 32bit Linux bundles on 64bit Debian Wheezy - worked on some fixes #27137. Now checking if the tests still fail when enabling the corresponding prefs. - answered tor-packagers email about "torbrowser package on NetBSD" (still awaiting moderator approval) and opened #29790 This week: - help with publishing the new releases - fix #27137 and disable all currently failing tests

sysrqb: Last week: More work on #28329 Release prep This week: More of the same

sisbell: Last week: - 29313: tor-android-service browser build - downgraded tor to 0.3.4.9, generated new dependency list, new patch to remove ndk build, fixed torservice to work with older library - 29574 Configure Orbot project to use TOPL - cleaned up and broke apart patches, fixed some mismatched dependency versions - 29575 Configure Firefox project to use TOPL - upgraded dependencies list - tested integrated APK (orbot working but proxy not connected to) This Week: - Resolve proxy not found in browser - Add obfs4proxy to tor-android-service aar - Fix latest merged conflict in orbot project for browser build - respond to any code reviews

antonela: Last week: - 8.5 Review, TBA and TB - #28800 - New Identity - https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/28800#comment:8 This week: - Moar on 8.5 - #27484 - Onboarding - #29768 - Introducing new features - Security Setting Tor Browser manual update is ready for review - who should review it? (GeKo: pospeselr and I can take a look, too, besides Steph) https://pad.riseup.net/p/ZsGRD4yM5pshKddf75IR-keep - TBA #27399 - Leading Orfox users to Tor Browser Android - Reading more about Letterboxing What is the priority for Letterboxing? Which Tor Browser version will release it? (GeKo: not sure yet which alpha but I hope we can test it furthre and help Mozilla by shipping something in May maybe)

pili: Last week: - Tor Browser vision exercise write up - Tor Browser release meeting - Sponsor 8 final report This week: - Sponsor 8 final report - Sponsor 27 prep - Google Season of Docs - any ideas for projects for a technical writer for ~3 or ~5 months? FPI documentation? Others? (GeKo: helping with our design doc might be good) - Start prep for Tor Browser Team capacity planning session

Georg